Hearing Leo Blaze's words, Lily White opened her eyes wide and said, "Yes, yes, my grandfather also told me not to run outside the village. People outside the village are very bad. If they catch kids, they will skin them and cover them with dog skin to train them as dogs. Because children are smart, they can use this dog that understands human language to perform acrobatics on the street. That kid would be miserable because their body would stick to the dog skin and never grow up."<br>Leo Blaze frowned slightly and shook his head, "No, I'm not talking about these old wives' tales that scare little grandchildren. I'm talking about something like Mr. You."<br>"Like Mr. You? Let me think..." Lily White frowned slightly and began to ponder. "The stories my grandfather tells are messy, but most are about mountain monsters eating people. Stories like Mr. You's are really rare."<br>"Who told your grandfather the story about Mr. You?"<br>Lily White innocently widened her eyes, "Of course, it was my grandfather's grandfather who told him, and then my grandfather told me. I will also tell my grandchildren in the future."<br>Leo Blaze scratched his head, realizing the story was a family heirloom and feeling he had miscalculated.<br><br>"Brother Leo, I know one." A weak young man leaning against the wall suddenly spoke up.<br>This person had deformed joints, one shoulder higher than the other, and a twisted body, making him quite "remarkable looking" even in the materials room.<br>"Brother Leo, my last name is Zhao, and I'm the fifth in the family, so you can just call me Joe Wu."<br>It didn't matter who was telling the story. Leo Blaze walked over to him and said, "Alright, go on."<br>Joe Wu looked around, deliberately lowered his voice, and said, "The kind of mysterious stuff you're talking about, I've heard from the elders that there's something like that. It's called Granny Eldest."<br>"Granny Eldest? What does it look like?" Leo Blaze quickly searched his mind but found no related images. Based on the literal meaning, there were no clues at all.<br>"Shh~ Brother Leo, don't be so loud. Keep your voice down. This thing is really strange. I've heard that if you talk about it often, they'll come looking for you!"<br>"Oh?" Hearing this, Leo Blaze became interested.<br>"My uncle said that it looks different in front of everyone. Some say it looks like a long-eared creature, others say it looks like a deceased elder. But the only similarity is that anyone who spends time near them will become a Granny Eldest!"<br>Leo Blaze stroked his chin thoughtfully. "This place is really strange, with all sorts of inexplicable things. Alright, is there more?"<br>"There is, there is also Gongpo Fish. This thing is also mysterious....."<br>From Joe Wu, Leo Blaze learned many strange and bizarre terms, which were all materials he intended to use in The Sage's Potion.<br>"You sure know a lot. Thanks, this information is helpful to me." Speaking only of highly toxic elixir ingredients, Master Dan might notice. But adding these things he couldn't even identify made it much more believable.<br>What he needed was something incomprehensible. Anything that was incomprehensible seemed profound.<br>Hearing Leo Blaze say this, Joe Wu smiled with joy. "I heard all this from my uncle. He's a merchant who travels everywhere, so he knows a lot."<br>"Alright, it's almost time. I'm heading back. You guys stay quiet and wait for my news." Leo Blaze took a deep breath, stood up, and walked out.<br>Just as he took a few steps, a tall figure of at least six feet three inches blocked his path. "I-I-I..."<br>Leo Blaze recognized the bald head in front of him. Everyone in the materials room called him a fool, with crossed eyes and drooling.<br>To say he was entirely a fool might not be accurate. He just had a stutter, slow reactions, and low intelligence. "I-I-I-I...also know!"<br>Leo Blaze sighed, reached out to pat his shiny bald head, and turned to walk towards the door.<br>The next morning, Leo Blaze was summoned early to Master Dan's residence. "The inner and outer small circulation techniques you mentioned, I've almost mastered them. Now tell me the elixirs to pair with the techniques."<br>"Yes, Master." Leo Blaze walked to the stone table and again pretended to examine it. "Hmm..... two hearts of Granny Eldest, refine their essence? Master, what does this mean?"<br>Master Dan, with an uncertain expression, paced back and forth in the room, mumbling to himself. "Is that how it is? The path to Achieve Eternal Life actually requires such dark and evil things?"<br>"Master, what is Granny Eldest?"<br>"Don't worry about it. Continue."<br>"One Gongpo Fish, take its gills, soak in two ounces of arsenic..."<br>Combining the things learned from Joe Wu with modern knowledge and a sleepless night's energy, Leo Blaze concocted a coherent method for Achieving Eternal Life in his words.<br>After finishing his fabricated story, he saw Master Dan extremely excited, mumbling something under his breath.<br>However, when he carefully listened, he was suddenly very shocked.<br>"Yes, it can't be wrong. Arsenic is cold, it must be neutralized with something hot like Gongpo Fish. Brilliant! And using Granny Eldest in the elixir, why hadn't I thought of it before? Since humans can be part of the elixir, why can't these dark and evil things?" This guy actually started imagining the balance of the elixir's properties.<br>Leo Blaze realized Master Dan could be very smart, but when he was superstitious, he was truly ignorant. He trusted no one, only the set of ideas he had formed in his mind.<br>If there was a word to describe it, it would be old wives' tales. In a world without gods and spirits, believing in ghosts and gods represents ignorance. But even in a world with gods and spirits, superstition is still ignorance, just that the objects of belief are different.<br>At this moment, Master Dan reached into his sleeve with his right hand, pulling out a copper bell missing a corner—exactly like the ones used to control zombies in movies.<br>As he began to shake it vigorously, an ear-piercing bell rang out. Leo Blaze immediately felt a splitting headache, instinctively holding his head and gritting his teeth.<br>This eerie copper bell sound affected not only his hearing but also his vision.<br>Everything around began to twist and distort, the entire world shaking violently as if in an earthquake.<br>"What's happening? Master Dan, what's he up to? Did I make a mistake? Did he discover something?"<br>As Leo Blaze pondered this, he saw the table's edge, the hem of Master Dan's robe, and even a side of the heavenly book beside them—every visible edge and corner in the room—coming alive and slowly gathering before Master Dan.<br>This thing, formed by the edges of objects, was hard to describe, but the one certainty was that it was alive.<br>Leo Blaze thought he must be seeing it wrong. He shook his head vigorously, and to his surprise, shaking it only made it turn into two.)
